Supporting LOC RR's

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon May 2 13:02:47 UTC 2022


On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:39:33PM +0200,
 Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote 
 a message of 14 lines which said:

> Which problems do LOC solve?
> 
> I remember adding LOC records for fun?() in the previous millennium when
> RFC 1876 was fresh out of the press.  But even back then paranoia
> finally took over, and I deleted all of them.
> 
> Don't think I ever found anything to actually use them for.

Fun is a sufficient reason.

French zip codes to LOC:

% dig +short +nodnssec LOC 34000.cp.bortzmeyer.fr
43 36 47.108 N 3 52 9.113 E 0.00m 1m 10000m 10m

https://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-code-postal-lonlat.html (in French)


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